Hungary reminded Ukraine that Kyiv erects monuments to Nazi accomplices

BUDAPEST, Jan 31 – RIA Novosti. Secretary of State Janos Nagy, who is responsible for the office of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, reminded the mayor of Dnepropetrovsk, Boris Filatov, who earlier criticized Orban and Hungarian policy in insulting terms, that monuments are erected in Ukraine to Nazi collaborators who killed the Jewish and Polish population.

Earlier, Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, said that the Hungarian ambassador to Ukraine would be summoned to the Foreign Ministry for a “frank conversation” because of the words of Orban, who, in a conversation with reporters, compared Ukraine to Afghanistan, calling it “no man’s land.” Later, the mayor of Dnepropetrovsk, Boris Filatov, harshly criticized Orban on social networks for his statement. In particular, he said that Hungary “is hated everywhere: from Romania with Slovakia to Serbia with Ukraine” and that Budapest “in every world war” sought to “please the tyrants.”

“The question of who is hated where is very subjective. At the same time, the fact that a political leader draws chauvinistic conclusions out of hatred is more than problematic. The fact that Hungary sought to please tyrants is as much a distortion as other outbursts of anger. I think that a citizen of a country whose name means “at the edge” should know how difficult and how risky it is to balance on the periphery of the great powers and under their constant pressure,” Nagy said in a video message published on Facebook * (an extremist social network banned in the Russian Federation).

The politician also recalled that the Ukrainian military “as part of the Red Army participated in the suppression of the Hungarian revolution of 1956.”

“I also do not consider it appropriate that monuments are erected throughout Ukraine to persons who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. To those who participated in the extermination of Jewish and Polish citizens. Modesty and knowledge of history would be justified,” Nagy said.

He also called on Filatov, “for whom 150,782 people voted in the elections, to be more respectful of Hungary and the head of its government, for whom 3,060,706 Hungarians voted,” since “respect can only be mutual.”

“The Prime Minister did not mean your country, but the front-line territories where fierce battles are taking place. If you look at the photos and videos from there, it really looks like Israel, and since there is little chance that the war there will soon come to an end and life will resume , it is regrettable, but it can rightfully be called a no man’s land,” Nagy said.

Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal “the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.” For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out “demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine”, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for “bloody crimes against civilians” in Donbass.

* The activity of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) is banned in Russia as extremist.